"Filled with intriguing...information"--The New York Times. "Goodwin holds strong convictions and clearly expresses them in an entertainingly sardonic style"--Library Journal. This intelligent, entertaining look at anxiety ranges from mild stress to serious phobias (including "pantaphobia," fear of almost everything), offering fascinating details (nostalgia was once treated as a disease) and educated advice on assessing the meaning and seriousness of one's own anxiety.